hi jim,
>>will work! also changing server works. i hope that this is the only >>issue and that there are no more stupid changes of this kind coming in >>future (a kind of too idealistic i guess). > > There will be, that is why web applications have maintenance costs many > orders of magnitude larger than regular applications. yes, but the most people i work for don't consider this. will print out your lines and put it outside my door... >><script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[ >>var val="help/"; >>]]></script> >><a xlink:href="javascript:self.location='http://www.carto.net/'+val"> >>the variable "val" is unknown, i think this is a namespace issue. > > You can change the xlink:href attribute to contain what you want if you want > this to work - it's not surprising it doesn't work (the variable scope of > the javascript psuedo-protocol isn't the SVG document) i may change the xlink:href attribute by DOM manip after doc load. but this is what onlick="location='location?blah='+jsval" thankfully avoids. i my case jsval is set onload of the doc (mainly language is set that way on multiple links inside a document). as it is global available in event handlers, no domtree re-traversing is needed (the onclick thing works because no user can click before the doc is loaded and if it occurs, the passed parameters all have a fallback). or is there a way of getting any svg doc variables into the javascript psuedo-protocol of the xlink:href call without a gEBI/getAttribute on it? andré ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/